Maybe boring gray and black just isn't your deal. You want to add a little color to your life, even your computer. Or maybe you just want a way to protect the part of your expensive laptop that gets touched the most. Either way, check out this project to customize and protect the trackpad in style.
Over at Carrots and Broccoli, Xin Rui shows off a new laptop, complete with a fresh, new polka-dotted trackpad. She shows how she traced and cut apart a fabric sticker to make her crafty trackpad cover fit like a glove.
It's done with Reform Sticker, a type of adhesive fabric sticker that's sold in large sheets. You can find it online in different patterns with a quick search on eBay or Etsy. Most sheets are less than $5.
According to the blogger at Carrots and Broccoli, the Reform Sticker feels nice to the touch and doesn't impede on your trackpad's scrolling or gesturing capability. Check out the full tutorial here if you're interested.
(Images: Apple, Shutterstock, Carrots and Broccoli)
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I am highly skeptical that this wouldn't impede of the touch sensitivity of the track-pad.
I would never paste stuff onto my beautiful laptop.
Love the idea but it's driving me insane how the polka dots are crooked!!
What negative nancy's! I'm gunna go get me some adhesive fabric.
Hmm, I agree. Don't mess with the Mac. Its styling is beautiful already. There are a million other ways to satisfy a crafty/pattern/embellishment need.
The MacBook is not gray and boring.
I feel no need to 'improve' my macbook pro, however, I am happy to find out about the fabric sticker. I can think of 6 ways to use it right now, just off-hand.
Very cool.